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Redwood City, California

Constraints don’t slow us down. They focus us.

This wine closet in our #project5oclocksomewhere is clad in remnant stone from the living room fireplace. Handsome, but not remotely flat. Every stone sits at a slightly different depth, which is a problem the moment you’re trying to hang seventy-some odd pegs that all need to hold a bottle level and flush at the front.

There was no installation instruction sheet for a surface like this. We worked in tandem with our contractor, mapping where each one should go, accounting for the stone behind it, the angle it needed to be set at, and how deep it had to be driven so the bottle line reads even up close and from across the room.

Then we tested it. Moving bottles of different shapes from peg to peg before setting it for good. Becuase you know, the shape of chardonnay bottles are often different than cabernet bottles... and this is an equal-opportunity wine-drinking household.

Proof that sometimes the hard thing is the right thing.

designed by: @studio_collected_
photography by: @nicolediannephoto

Constraints don’t slow us down. They focus us.

This wine closet in our #project5oclocksomewhere is clad in remnant stone from the living room fireplace. Handsome, but not remotely flat. Every stone sits at a slightly different depth, which is a problem the moment you’re trying to hang seventy-some odd pegs that all need to hold a bottle level and flush at the front.

There was no installation instruction sheet for a surface like this. We worked in tandem with our contractor, mapping where each one should go, accounting for the stone behind it, the angle it needed to be set at, and how deep it had to be driven so the bottle line reads even up close and from across the room.

Then we tested it. Moving bottles of different shapes from peg to peg before setting it for good. Becuase you know, the shape of chardonnay bottles are often different than cabernet bottles... and this is an equal-opportunity wine-drinking household.

Proof that sometimes the hard thing is the right thing.

designed by: @studio_collected_
photography by: @nicolediannephoto

Creating a culture of collaboration is about building relationships where trade partners are genuinely invested in executing a plan alongside our team. It’s about finding partners who aren’t looking to take instructions, but partners who bring their own expertise to a project. Because at the end of the day, we’re not just delivering a spec. We’re delivering on an investment and a dream that a homeowner has for their forever space.

We look for partners who see themselves as collaborators, not subcontractors — and we deeply honor the work they do. That means we need to show up prepared, communicate early, give credit where it’s due, and yes, pay our partners fairly for the work they do. That last part matters more than most think. Fair pay is part of how you build a relationship people actually want and look forward to showing up to.

The floating bench in the #project5oclocksomewhere primary shower is what that looks like in practice. A metal fabricator engineering steel supports strong enough to suspend marble. A tile installer and stone fabricator finishing an elongated niche around it - completely in unison. An electrician wiring integrated lighting into a space with almost no margin for error. And behind the stone itself, our incredible rep at IRG, who helped us source the exact slab this whole moment was built around. Four trades + one amazing rep - five people, one vision, and enough trust between them to get it right.

designed by: @studio_collected_
photography by: @nicolediannephoto
stylist: @elevenhomeaestics

Creating a culture of collaboration is about building relationships where trade partners are genuinely invested in executing a plan alongside our team. It’s about finding partners who aren’t looking to take instructions, but partners who bring their own expertise to a project. Because at the end of the day, we’re not just delivering a spec. We’re delivering on an investment and a dream that a homeowner has for their forever space.

We look for partners who see themselves as collaborators, not subcontractors — and we deeply honor the work they do. That means we need to show up prepared, communicate early, give credit where it’s due, and yes, pay our partners fairly for the work they do. That last part matters more than most think. Fair pay is part of how you build a relationship people actually want and look forward to showing up to.

The floating bench in the #project5oclocksomewhere primary shower is what that looks like in practice. A metal fabricator engineering steel supports strong enough to suspend marble. A tile installer and stone fabricator finishing an elongated niche around it - completely in unison. An electrician wiring integrated lighting into a space with almost no margin for error. And behind the stone itself, our incredible rep at IRG, who helped us source the exact slab this whole moment was built around. Four trades + one amazing rep - five people, one vision, and enough trust between them to get it right.

designed by: @studio_collected_
photography by: @nicolediannephoto
stylist: @elevenhomeaestics

Pocket doors need to be rectangular to be installed and function correctly, so when our clients fell for an arched look in this kitchen, we didn’t talk them out of it. We made a plan to make it happen.

Working with our custom door manufacturer, we added an arch pattern into the face of a fully rectangular door, matched precisely to the radius of the opening it sits inside. There was no margin for error. Get that radius even slightly off, and the illusion falls apart the second the door slides open.

Guess what? It didn’t. Swipe to see what that precision mapping looked like mid-construction, before the door went in.

That’s what leading with experience looks like. Knowing exactly who to call, and how exact the work needs to be, to get it right the first time.

Big props to @4acks who did the math to get everything just right, and worked hand in hand with our partners to make sure the doors were made to perfection.

Designed by: @studio_collected_
Photography by: @nicolediannephoto
Stylist: @elevenhomeaesthetics
Architect: @hylanddesigngroup

Pocket doors need to be rectangular to be installed and function correctly, so when our clients fell for an arched look in this kitchen, we didn’t talk them out of it. We made a plan to make it happen.

Working with our custom door manufacturer, we added an arch pattern into the face of a fully rectangular door, matched precisely to the radius of the opening it sits inside. There was no margin for error. Get that radius even slightly off, and the illusion falls apart the second the door slides open.

Guess what? It didn’t. Swipe to see what that precision mapping looked like mid-construction, before the door went in.

That’s what leading with experience looks like. Knowing exactly who to call, and how exact the work needs to be, to get it right the first time.

Big props to @4acks who did the math to get everything just right, and worked hand in hand with our partners to make sure the doors were made to perfection.

Designed by: @studio_collected_
Photography by: @nicolediannephoto
Stylist: @elevenhomeaesthetics
Architect: @hylanddesigngroup

Vision isn’t a fabric swatch or a paint chip. It’s seeing the possibilities in a space, then communicating and building the plan to bring a home’s full potential to reality.

At #Project5OclockSomewhere , that meant working alongside the architecture, not just inside it.

The very talented @hylanddesigngroup created the plan for a deep, paneled arch to divide the entry from the open-concept dining, kitchen, and family room. The family loves hosting friends and family, but also deeply value their privacy - so having the entry’s separation for the main living space was important to them.

When thinking through our approach to this space, we wanted to draw you forward before the home beyond fully revealed itself aesthetically. A fluted marble table and a @hudsonvalleylighting pendant - chosen to echo the fixture just past the arch - do the quiet work of connecting one room to the next. The art, a beautiful marine and white abstract piece that is full of drama, holds its own against the scale of the arch.

Vision isn’t just the individual components of a beautiful room. It’s imagining how someone will experience and feel as they walk through the door for the first time…and every time after.

designed by: @studio_collected_
photography by: @nicolediannephoto
architect: @hylanddesigngroup
stylist: @elevenhomeaesthetics

Vision isn’t a fabric swatch or a paint chip. It’s seeing the possibilities in a space, then communicating and building the plan to bring a home’s full potential to reality.

At #Project5OclockSomewhere , that meant working alongside the architecture, not just inside it.

The very talented @hylanddesigngroup created the plan for a deep, paneled arch to divide the entry from the open-concept dining, kitchen, and family room. The family loves hosting friends and family, but also deeply value their privacy - so having the entry’s separation for the main living space was important to them.

When thinking through our approach to this space, we wanted to draw you forward before the home beyond fully revealed itself aesthetically. A fluted marble table and a @hudsonvalleylighting pendant - chosen to echo the fixture just past the arch - do the quiet work of connecting one room to the next. The art, a beautiful marine and white abstract piece that is full of drama, holds its own against the scale of the arch.

Vision isn’t just the individual components of a beautiful room. It’s imagining how someone will experience and feel as they walk through the door for the first time…and every time after.

designed by: @studio_collected_
photography by: @nicolediannephoto
architect: @hylanddesigngroup
stylist: @elevenhomeaesthetics

Introducing our first project reveal as Studio Collected. 🤍

This dining room was designed for exactly what our clients do best: hosting. Long dinners, late-night lingering, tequila tastings, friends who overstay their welcome (lovingly).

We layered warmth into every material: fluted white oak, boucle and leather seating, and a brass chandelier that doubles as sculptural artwork. A dining room built for the nights that run long.

Designed by: @studio_collected_
Photography by: @nicolediannephoto
Styling: @elevenhomeaesthetics
Architect: @hylanddesigngroup
Project: #diningroom, #project5oclocksomewhere

Introducing our first project reveal as Studio Collected. 🤍

This dining room was designed for exactly what our clients do best: hosting. Long dinners, late-night lingering, tequila tastings, friends who overstay their welcome (lovingly).

We layered warmth into every material: fluted white oak, boucle and leather seating, and a brass chandelier that doubles as sculptural artwork. A dining room built for the nights that run long.

Designed by: @studio_collected_
Photography by: @nicolediannephoto
Styling: @elevenhomeaesthetics
Architect: @hylanddesigngroup
Project: #diningroom, #project5oclocksomewhere

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